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story-teller

Noun

Meaning

One who tells stories; a narrator of anecdotes,incidents, or fictitious tales; as, an amusing story-teller.

An historian; -- in contempt.

A euphemism or child's word for

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. Walter Benjamin

To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness. Ben Okri

What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer. Athol Fugard

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently. Isabel Allende

I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and reserved. Bill Bryson

It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks. James Payn

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